Overview
- More than one third of roughly 220,000 ICE arrests from Jan. 20 to Oct. 15 involved people with no criminal histories, undercutting claims that operations target the “worst of the worst.”
- ICE averaged about 824 arrests per day in that period, well below a reported internal push for 3,000 daily arrests pressed by White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
- The dataset, obtained by UC Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project, follows the administration’s halt to routine public reporting of detailed arrest information earlier this year.
- Arrest profiles skewed heavily male (about 90%), with Mexican nationals comprising the largest group (about 85,000), followed by Guatemala (31,000) and Honduras (24,000), and most arrestees were ages 25–45.
- The records exclude Border Patrol interior arrests and do not show offense severity, and outcomes remain unclear, with 22,959 listed as voluntary departures and roughly 65,000 people reported in immigration detention in mid-November.